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Gliff by Ali Smith (published by Vintage in the U.S.) won the €100,000 (about $116,185) Dublin Literary Award, which is sponsored by Dublin City Council to promote excellence in world literature and honors a single novel published in English. Nominations are chosen from public libraries around the world and recognize both writers and translators. The prize is presented at a special ceremony during the International Literature Festival Dublin.
"Gliff is a remarkable and deeply powerful work from author Ali Smith," said Lord Mayor of Dublin councillor Ray McAdam. "At a moment when democracy across the world can too often feel fragile, this novel is a powerful reminder that freedom, dignity and democratic values should never be taken for granted."
Smith commented: "This is an award prized among writers, who know that the Dublin Literary Award's formation, its ear and eye for what matters most, and its profoundly literary legacy, all make it the best--an award that dares always to be international and that knows the importance of translation--the beating heart of all writing. It's an award whose nominations all always come from worldwide public libraries and their readers--in other words from the open heart of communal thought and imagination. It's also an award that's built, over its years, its own astonishing library of nominated works by a roster of writers I'm grateful now to find myself among."